Improvement in washing-machine



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JJM'. STARR, JR., OFQFOND DU LAC, -WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR T HIM- vSELF AND GEORGEVD. TROMBLY, OFV SAMEAPLACE.

Letters Patent N 93,242, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINE The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent; and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. M. STARR, Jr., of Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac,and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the ,following vis a full, clear, and exact description thereof7 which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. l v

This invention relates to improvements inwashingmachines, designed to provide a simple, cheap, and economical construction and alrangement of the same. A I t consists in providing oneend of a seriesof notched heaters or agitators, suspended upon levers, pivoted at the centre, with rollers, which are adapted to move over the clothes in the bottom of the tub, for the purpose oi' squeezing the saine, said tub being provided with a series of longitudinal ribs upon its curved bottoni, upon which the clothes are rubbed by the beaters.

Figure l represents a sectional elevation ofmy iniproved machine, and l Figure Zrepresents a plan view of the same.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts. v

Arcpresents the tub, having a curved bottom, provided with the ribs B. The'bottom'niay, if preferred,

be formed of three or more plane'sides.

position of the clothes resting thereon.

In a recess formed in one end of each beater s'journalled a roller, H, which, as the beaters move over the clothes in the bottom of the tub, serve to press upon suchl clothes, and thereby expel the dirty water from the same, in a manner similar to the squeezing and rubbing actions in ordinary hand-washing. Then additional labor is required to wash the clothes, they may be transferred to the opposite end of the sl1ds-box,a11d

subjected to pressure from the ends of' the` beaters that are not provided with rollers.

The said levers rise'sufciently above the said centre to receive motion from a crank-shaft, F, suspended in uprights rising from the top of the tub.

The cranks are so arranged as to cause a part of the beaters to inove in one direction, While another part are .moving in another, whereby the eiect is increased.

Doors, G, are provided each side of the centre, E,

for access to either part ofthe tub, which is separated by the levers D, and forms' a convenient arrangement forwashing clothes in separate lots at the-saine time.

I is a removable perforated bottoni, upon which the clothes rest, and through which the dirt from the clothes passes to the bottom of 'the tub. From the latter it can be withdrawn through the bottom or side Witnesses:

DANI.. E. DWYER, GEO. D. TROMBLY; 

